Aspartame, not Ephedra causing cardiac arrests

18 December 2003 - Betty Martini releases more bad news about Aspartame, the toxic sweetener approved by the FDA, the European Scientific Committee and analogous health watchdog services around the world. One point that strikes a chord is the present anti-herbs campaign world wide, which is based on the supposed side effects, especially cardiac arrests blamed on Ephedra containing supplements.

A quote from Betty Martini's report: "Today people are actually dropping dead from aspartame. A recent report has been sent to the Center for Disease Control from the Idaho Observer covering 192 people who dropped dead in one county alone in 4 months. Think of how many athletes using the product have lost their life. It was never Ephedra. Famed Dr. John Olney reviewed the cases the FDA said died from this and found that none of them did, and that Ephedra is safe. Aspartame causes cardiac arrhythmias and interacts with all cardiac medication."

President Bush is having an MRI of his knees today at Walter Reed Hospital. This is another symptom of deadly aspartame disease. It is caused by hardening of the synovial fluids which was discovered on studies done in South America by Searle in l983/84 but never published. The
notarized affidavit from the translator, N. Vera is on www.mpwhi.com/main.htm These studies also revealed that some subjects got brain tumors, others had seizures, and aspartame destroys the brain and central nervous system.

Joint pain is 31 on the FDA report of 92 symptoms from 4 types of seizures to coma and death. Dr. H. J. Roberts has declared Aspartame Disease to be a global plague and has published the medical text, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, www.sunsentpress.com or 1 800 827 7991. It contains a large chapter on joint pain, fibromyalgia (a diagnostic wastebucket), arthritis and associated type problems triggered by aspartame. He discusses the abnormalities of calcium and phosphate metabolism such as the affinity of aspartame for calcium which is also depleted by the phosphoric acid in the soda. His reports on joint pain are also on the Dorway web site. Read also info from Dr. Richard Sabates who suffered the same problem from the same diet drinks and ended up at the Mayo Clinic who couldn't help him. The public and physicians are clueless because the FDA, the manufacturers and the professional organizations they fund put out propaganda rather than facts. Aspartame is a deadly neurotoxic drug which interacts with most drugs used to treat the problems it causes and is not an additive at all. It is of such poisonous nature that it is a chemical hypersensitization agent and will even react with vaccines and other toxins. It is a trigger of creeping death - the neurodegenerative diseases.

Aspartame scrambles the brain causing memory loss, confusion and inability to concentrate. It is a molecule composed of three components, aspartic acid, an excitotoxin (product that stimulates the neurons of the brain to death causing brain damage of varying degrees), methanol, a severe metabolic poison that converts to formaldehyde and formic acid and causes metabolic acidosis, and phenylalanine, at 50% and an isolate is neurotoxic lowering the seizure threshold of the brain and depleting serotonin which triggers manic depression, mood swings, panic attacks and suicidal tendencies for starters. Aspartame breaks down to a witches brew of toxins including diketopiperazine, a brain tumor agent.

President Bush is already stumbling over his words and showing the signs of advanced aspartame poisoning. One of these signs is blackouts, and you remember the "fainting spell" said to be from a "pretzel". No record of pretzels causing blackouts.

Orthopedic surgeons have reported finding necrosis under the joints of aspartame victims. The reason there are many failed joint surgeries is aspartame is a chemical hypersensitization agent. Dr. James Bowen says this causes violent auto immune reactions to methyl esters. "Usually, the larger the compound and more toxic the other components the more violent the reaction. Previous reaction to that same compound may make the reaction more violent, destructive, rapid and certain. Methyl merthacrylate is the chemical "glue" used to bond and conform the implant into the bony structure it is being attached to. Being previously sensitized by aspartame virtually assures that methyl mertacrylate will yield a violent local autoimmune destruction rather than "glue" the components to the bone, leaving the unfortunate patient with both the destruction from the surgical excision of bone and the radical damage from rejection of the implant and the methyl mertacrylate platform it was to be glued to."

Often just getting off aspartame will eliminate the problem. If not prolotherapy can. The leading physician who does this is Dr. Hauser in Oak Park, Illinois who was trained by the late Dr. Gustav Hemwall who cured Surgeon General C. Everett Koop of back pain. Prolotherapy is often the cure for chronic pain.

The world is suffering from Aspartame Disease thanks to President Bush's friend, Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld, who called in his markers to get it approved when the FDA had refused for 16 years to not only allow approval but attempted to have the manufacturer indicted. Both U.S. Prosecutors hired on with the Defense Team and the Statute of Limitations Expired. What power by a pharmaceutical company! Read the story on web and in the Artificially Sweetened Times (www.Idaho-Observer.com).

Today people are actually dropping dead from aspartame. A recent report has been sent to the Center for Disease Control from the Idaho Observer covering 192 people who dropped dead in one county alone in 4 months. Think of how many athletes using the product have lost their life. It was never Ephedra. Famed Dr. John Olney reviewed the cases the FDA said died from this and found that none of them did, and that Ephedra is safe. Aspartame causes cardiac arrhythmias and interacts with all cardiac medication. It damages the cardiac conduction system and causes sudden death. There are many articles on this by Doctors H. J. Roberts, Neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock and James Bowen. (Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills by Blaylock) One of the horror stories is that of the death of Charles Fleming who used at least 10 diet drinks a day. His autopsy showed the chronic methanol poisoning which incidentally affects the dopamine system of the brain and causes the addiction. The police not knowing about aspartame thought he had been poisoned. His wife, Diane Fleming, a lovely Sunday School teacher and helper of the homeless, is now serving 50 years in a Virginia prison for a crime committed by the manufacturers of this deadly poison. Read the story on the site of the World Natural Health Organization, www.wnho.net. And what do they use to sweeten in prisons - aspartame. Also read the article by Dr. Bowen on aspartame and cardiomyopathy.

Another leader of the free world, Tony Blair of England, also user of Diet Coke has already been reported to have suffered the cardiac problems. This represents advanced aspartame poisoning. A letter has been sent to his wife by a homeopath in England. Will he listen before its too late?

Donald Rumsfeld was CEO of Searle when he called in his markers to get it approved. He was on President Reagan's transition team, and Reagan the day after taking office appointed Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes as FDA Commissioner since no Commissioner in 16 years would approve the poison. A board of inquiry of the best scientists the FDA had to offer was set up and it was their decision that the petition for approval of aspartame be revoked. Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes over-ruled that Board of Inquiry and then went to work for the PR Agency of the manufacturer and has refused to talk to the press ever since. The entire Board of Inquiry report, the congressional record and the famed Dr. John Olney's testimony to the Board of Inquiry going into detail about what would happen to the brains of our kids (founded the field of neuroscience called excitotoxicity) can be gotten by CD from
Mission Possible Maine, http://www.greatfallspro.com An excellent article on isolated amino acids explaining why aspartame is so dangerous by James Bowen, M.D., and former FDA Investigator Arthur Evangeslista, can be read on www.aspartame.ca (Mission Possible Canada).

It would be a tragedy if two leaders of the free world were murdered by President Bush's best friend's poison!

The assumption in the article is that the cause could be genetic because in a fifth of the cases, other family members died of similar unexpected deaths. Could it also be a question of a family consuming the same (aspartame containing) "light" beverages?

posted by Sepp Hasslberger on Sunday December 21 2003
updated on Thursday December 16 2010

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Readers' Comments

The news talks about you asking Donald Rumsfeld to step down which has to do with the Iraq situation.

I would like to call your attention to when Donald Rumsfeld was CEO of Searle, manufacturers of aspartame. For 16 years the FDA refused to approve it, not only because its not safe but because they wanted the company indicted for fraud. Both U.S. Prosecutors hired on with the defense team and the statute of limitations expired. They were Sam Skinner and William Conlon. Skinner went on to become Secretary of Transportation squelching the cries of the pilots who were now having seizures on this seizure triggering drug, aspartame, and then Chief of Staff under President Bush's father. Some of these people reach high places. Even Supreme Justice Clarence Thomas is a former Monsanto attorney. (Monsanto bought Searle in l985, and sold it a few years ago). When Ashcroft became Attorney General, Thompson from King and Spalding Attorneys (another former Monsanto attorney) became deputy under Ashcroft. (Attorneys for NutraSweet and Coke).

However, the FDA still refused to allow NutraSweet on the market. It is a deadly neurotoxic drug masquerading as an additive. It interacts with all antidepressants, L-dopa, Coumadin, hormones, insulin, all cardiac medication, and many others. It also is a chemical hypersensitization drug so that it interacts with vaccines, other toxins, other unsafe sweeteners like Splenda which has a chlorinated base like DDT and can cause autoimmune disease. It has a synergistic and additive effect with MSG. (www.truthinlabeling.org). Both being excitotoxins, the aspartic acid in aspartame, and MSG, the glutamate people were found using aspartame as the placebo for MSG studies, even before it was approved. The FDA has known this for a quarter of a century and done nothing even though its against the law. Searle went on to build a NutraSweet factory and had $9 million worth of inventory.

Donald Rumsfeld was on President Reagan's transition team and the day after he took office he appointed an FDA Commissioner who would approve aspartame. The FDA set up a Board of Inquiry of the best scientists they had to offer who said aspartame is not safe and causes brain tumors, and the petition for approval is hereby revoked. The new FDA Commissioner, Arthur Hull Hayes, over-ruled that Board of Inquiry and then went to work for the PR Agency of the manufacturer, Burson-Marstellar, rumored at $1000.00 a day, and has refused to talk to the press ever since. Read the whole story of the history of aspartame at http://www.wnho.net/history_of_aspartame.htm This will tell you everything you need to know. Rumsfeld calling in his markers is even documented in the congressional record!

In order to get it in other countries, Searle made a business deal with Professor Paul Turner in England. They knew if England found out the FDA wanted them indicted for fraud it could never get approved. Parliament found out and there was a big blow out but the order was never rescinded. The story was in the Guardian. Now all they had to do was rubberstamp this deadly poison around the world.

There were three congressional hearings because of the outcry of the people being poisoned. Senator Orrin Hatch refused to allow hearings for a long time. The first hearing was in l985, and Senator Hatch and others were paid by Monsanto. So the bill by Senator Metzenbaum never got out of committee. This bill would have put a moratorium on aspartame, and had the NIH do independent studies on the problems being seen in the population, interaction with drugs, seizures, what it does to the fetus and even behavioral problems in children. This is due to the depletion of serotonin caused by the phenylalanine in aspartame.

I spoke to the European Union a couple of years ago and brought them the damning government records so they would know that aspartame was never proven safe. This was at the time they were going to write a new report, again because of the outcry on aspartame. I also gave them some of Monsanto's flawed research and showed them what they had done. You can't show a poison to be safe on studies without fixing them. But those from industry were part of the committee so what the EU did was eliminate all the damning research and use the flawed. They didn't even look at their own research. It was as if they were making it up as they went along. See the rebuttal to the EU report on www.wnho.net Click on aspartame.

With regard to Desert Storm Syndrome, you may recall the government did a study and came up with Lou Gehrigs. The pop companies sent aspartame laced pop to the Persian Gulf to set in 120 degree Arabian sun and break down to formaldehyde cocktails. Go to www.mpwhi.com/main.htm and read the protest of the National Soft Drink Association and you'll see they said it decomposes at 86 degrees. so the pop companies knew the gun was loaded. The NSDA also quoted the law that said its illegal to put anything in carbonated beverages that decomposes or adulterates the drink. Yet the pop companies turned around and added it to the beverages anyway. And it would interact with vaccines like the Antrax given to the troops never approved by the FDA. Acting Commissioner at the time, Michael Friedman just said to use it anyway. Read the case for aspartame disease being Lou Gehrigs on www.wnho.net (click on aspartame).

Back in l996 when Dr. John Olney (founded the field of neuroscience called excitotoxicity, and attempted to stop the approval of aspartame with Attorney James Turner) made world news on the aspartame/brain tumor connection he was on 60 Minutes. Michael Friedman knowing full well the main reason the FDA refused to allow aspartame on the market for 16 years was the brain tumors, got on 60 Minutes and defended Monsanto by saying aspartame did not cause brain tumors. Yet the FDA's own toxicologist, Dr. Adrian Gross, told Congress that without a shadow of a doubt aspartame can cause brain tumors and brain cancer, and violated the Delaney Amendment which forbid putting anything in food you know will cause cancer. His last words to Congress were "And if the FDA violates its own law who is left to protect the public?" All you have to do is read the Bressler Report (FDA audit) on www.mpwhi.com/main.htm where Searle was caught excising brain tumors from the rats and putting them back in the study. When the rats died they resurrected them on paper. I spoke with Jerome Bressler as did Dr. H. J. Roberts (Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, www.sunsentpress.com or 1 800 827 7991) and neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D. (author of Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills, www.russellblaylockmd.com ). He told us the studies were so bad that the FDA removed the 20% of his report that was the most damning. He also said to try and attain a cover letter as well as two mice studies. Dr. Roberts wrote his congressman to get this but the FDA refused.

I asked Michael Friedman when he was going to get his reward for selling out to Monsanto, but he never answered. In June l999 he got his reward when Monsanto hired him. I told him at the time the FDA no longer needed a removing door, they could build a bridge to take care of the traffic.

Today we are faced with what may be one of the largest plagues in world history, Aspartame Disease. Congress has given the NIH $2.7 billion to find out what the toxin is poisoning our kids that has baffled the experts. See my report on www.wnho.net to NIH. In 20 years the kids would be dead. They ought to give the money to the parents of children damaged by aspartame.

Aspartame lawsuits have now been filed accusing some of the largest companies in the world of knowingly poisoning the public. See press release below. Understand that aspartame damages DNA so we're talking about survival of the human race. Nothing is safe as long as its on the market because of interaction of a deadly chemical poison. Thank you Donald Rumsfeld! The medical text, Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, by Dr. H. J. Roberts is 1038 pages of symptoms and diseases triggered by this neurotoxin. It has even caused the epidemic of obesity because it makes you crave carbohydrates so you gain weight, and the formaldehyde accumulates in the adipose tissue (fat cells) according to the Trocho Study. That's why they are trying to get the cheeseburger law through the Senate now. Aspartame manufacturers do not want to be held responsible for the epidemic they caused by refining lies until they resembled truth, telling the public aspartame is a diet product. Aspartame is also responsible for the epidemic of diabetes as it not only can precipitate diabetes but simulates and aggravates diabetic retinopathy and neuropathy, can cause diabetics to go into convulsions and interacts with insulin.

Aspartame liberates free methyl alcohol. Charles Fleming was a body builder and played basketball four times a week, and was addicted to aspartame, drinking diet drinks all day, and consuming other products. When he died and saw the methanol poisoning they thought his wife poisoned him. This Sunday school teacher is now serving 50 years in a Troy Virginia prison for a crime committed by the manufacturers of aspartame. Four doctors have written affidavits that Fleming died of aspartame but the medical examiner, Dr. Marcello Fierro (fried of Orrin Hatch) has refused to talk to Dr. Roberts even when
a meeting was set up for that reason. He wrote one of the affidavits. He treated victims of aspartame disease in the trenches of medical practice for 20 years and testified before Congress. In his first press conference he said if something wasn't done then we would be faced with a global epidemic, and that's where we are. See the petition for releasing Diane Fleming on www.wnho.net .

America is terrorized. By the exploding crisis in health care. American families are but a single sickness away from financial destruction. Citizens who scrimped their life through to cushion retirement must now choose whether to eat or buy drugs. Face it: if you're over 50 you're over-medicated in the USA today. Try saving half by buying from Canada and FDA will make a law against you! Land of the Free no more!

It's about money. Money for commissioner Hayes. Money for the federal prosecutors. Money for the parade of FDA officials who slithered into the NutraDeath club. Billions of quarters tinkling into vending machines of the National Soft Drink Association that once announced aspartame instability, but when cash registers began dancing to the beat of aspartame addiction just hurried to the bank.

Under the venal authority of Commissioner Hayes FDA repudiated its mission to protect a nation's health and became the private harlot of the drug industry. Aspartame and a thousand more dread poisons pimped by FDA are loosed upon a trusting population. Like seeping sewage the stinking greed of FDA and it's whoremasters has infected American healthcare, murdering children, impoverishing families and devouring widows' houses.

And it all started with Donald Rumsfeld calling in his markers and getting this deadly, deadly neurotoxic drug approved. He knew it was poison and didn't care.

The profiteer's endless proclamation:
"All is well!" "All is well!"
They lure our land and health to hell.

Lawsuits were filed in three separate California courts against twelve companies who either produce or use the artificial sweetener aspartame as a sugar substitute in their products. The suits were filed in Shasta, Sonoma and Butte County, California.

The suits allege that the food companies committed fraud and breach of warranty by marketing products to the public such as diet Coke, diet Pepsi, sugar free gum, Flintstone's vitamins, yogurt and children's aspirin with the full knowledge that aspartame, the sweetener in them, is neurotoxic.

Aspartame is a drug masquerading as an additive. It interacts with other drugs, has a synergistic and additive effect with MSG, and is a chemical hyper-sensitization agent. As far back as 1970, Dr. John Olney founded the field of neuroscience called excitotoxicity when he did studies on aspartic acid, which makes up 40% of aspartame, and found it caused lesions in the brains of mice. He made world news on the aspartame/brain tumor connection in l996. Dr. Ralph Walton, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine has written of the behavioral and psychiatric problems triggered by aspartame-caused depletion of serotonin.

Aspartame liberates free methyl alcohol. The resulting chronic methanol poisoning affects the dopamine system of the brain causing addiction. Methanol, or wood alcohol, constitutes one-third of the aspartame molecule and is classified as a severe metabolic poison and narcotic.

Recent news is full of reports of world-class athletes and other healthy consumers of aspartame suddenly dropping dead. Sudden death can occur from aspartame use because it damages the cardiac conduction system.

Dr. Woodrow Monte in the peer reviewed journal, Aspartame: Methanol and the Public Health, wrote: "When diet sodas and soft drinks, sweetened with aspartame, are used to replace fluid loss during exercise and physical exertion in hot climates, the intake of methanol can exceed 250 mg/day or 32 times the Environmental Protection Agency's recommended limit of consumption for this cumulative poison."

The effects of aspartame are documented by the FDA's own data. In 1995 the agency was forced, under the Freedom Of Information Act, to release a list of ninety-two aspartame symptoms reported by thousands of victims. This is only the tip of the iceberg. H. J. Roberts, MD, published the medical text "Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic" -- 1,000 pages of symptoms and diseases triggered by this neurotoxin including the sordid history of its approval.

Since its discovery in 1965, controversy has raged over the health risks associated with the sugar substitute. From laboratory testing of the chemical on rats, researchers have discovered that the drug induces brain tumors. On Sept 30, l980 the Board of Inquiry of the FDA concurred and denied the petition for approval. In l981, the newly appointed FDA Commissioner, Arthur Hull Hayes, ignored the negative ruling and approved aspartame for dry goods. As recorded in the Congressional Record of 1985, then CEO of Searle Laboratories Donald Rumsfeld said that he would call in his markers to get aspartame approved. Rumsfeld was on President Reagan's transition team and a day after taking office appointed Hayes. No FDA Commissioner in the previous sixteen years had allowed Aspartame on the market.

In 1983, aspartame was approved for use in carbonated beverages. Today it is found in over 5000 foods, drinks and medicines.

Neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, MD, author of "Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills" (http://www.russellblaylockmd.com) wrote about the relationship between aspartame and macular degeneration, diabetic blindness and glaucoma (all known to result from excitotoxin accumulation in the retina).

All of these neurodegenerative diseases are worsened by aspartame. In addition, we now have evidence that excitotoxins play a major role in exacerbation of MS and other demyelinating disorders including trigeminal neuraliga. Blaylock says that new studies show excitotoxins trigger significant elevation of free radicals in the lining (endothelial cells) of arteries, which means that aspartame will increase the incidence of heart attacks and strokes (atherosclerosis).

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